Legal Opinion

Delay v. Gordon

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided January 10, 2007No. 05-36108PublishedCited by 81 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

GOULD, Circuit Judge.

The beneficiaries of Plaintiff-Appellant William Delay’s estate 1 appeal an order from the district court denying modification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6) of a January 8, 1985 judgment on a breach of employment contract claim against the now-abolished Pacific Northwest River Basins Commission (“the Commission”). Appellants asserted that, under a change in the decisional law, the United States was liable for effecting an unconstitutional taking of Delay’s cause of action when it abolished and de-fended the Commission in 1981, so that the judgment against…

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  4. United States v. Alpine Land & Reservoir, Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1993
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3Cited by81 opinions

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